Serena’s sendoff, two youngsters proving themselves as No. 1s, and more parting thoughts on the U.S. Open from jon_wertheim
and more generally. A particularly chilling line: “When the winning stops, it becomes dark and there is nobody to hold your hand. That is the moment where it’s not talked about.”
26. The robots have arrived. It was strange watching tennis without a full complement of linespeople and challenges. And yet, very quickly, it became…not strange. Again the view here: if you have the technology to maximize accuracy, you’re duty-bound to use it, but it would be great if tennis could find some way to preserve these jobs.
30. Have we given tennis enough collective credit for the final-set tiebreak? There is finally standardization among the majors. More important, it’s the perfect mix of finite with a little extra padding compared to the seven-by-two breaker. 34. Max Cressy lost in round one. But watching the serve-and-volley dervish is like watching a resurrected dinosaur.35. Go home, everyone. The contest is over. The award for “craziest way to lose a tennis point” doesn’t merely go to Nick Kyrgios forelse—tie his shoe, take a brief nap, play air guitar, initiate a tortilla slap—he would have won this point, which would have given him a break point. In the second set of a night match. At a Major. Against the No. 1 player in the world.
38. I had the good fortune of spending some time on site with Juan Martin del Potro. He is—and always was—as lovely as you suspected. He’s retired, of course. But he is only 33. And if his body cooperates and heals with rest, who knows…perhaps we’ll see him on court again. 42. Let the record reflect: an extraordinary player with 21 Majors—most recently, Wimbledon—did not play this event because he declined to get a Covid vaccination. Let’s just leave it there. History can do its thing.
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